Have food products from industrial hemp been approved for sale in Australia and New Zealand?
New Zealand has approved hemp oil food products, but not hemp meal. ANZFA recommended that these foodstuffs be approved, (see PDF) but, under Howard, thay said it would send the wrong message about drugs, and refused to ratify the ANZFA standard.. Australia is now the only country where such “novel foods” are unavailable for human consumption, but pet foods are allowed.. If they are approved, will hemp food products require special labelling? Food ingredients must be declared in the statement of ingredients by the common name of the ingredient or a name that describes the true nature of the ingredient. If hemp is considered to be a characterising ingredient in the food, then the percentage of hemp in the food would also need to be declared. It is also proposed that foods containing hemp must not be represented in a form that expressly or by implication suggests that the food has any properties associated with illicit drugs. Are hemp-based products used in food elsewhere in the world? E
